DIDLS Breakdown DIDLS Diction‚ Imagery‚ Details‚ Language‚ and Syntax Use diction to find tone. Use imagery‚ details‚ language and syntax to support tone. TONE Author’s attitude toward the subject‚ toward himself‚ or toward the audience. DICTION Adjectives‚ nouns‚ verbs‚ adverbs‚ negative words‚ positive words‚ synonyms‚ contrast. Look at the words that jump out at you - Evaluate only those words to find tone Also look at: Colloquial (Slang) Old-Fashioned Informal (Conversational)
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O.L. #3B Question #1 is worth 5 points – all others are worth 1 point each. Either type your answers directly onto THIS sheet OR create a new file and number your answers 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ etc. 1. The following "gem" comes from the business world and as you can see is filled with redundant‚ empty‚ wordy‚ AND unnecessary phrases. Re-write it so that the ideas are expressed in a much clearer and more stylistic way. To: District Managers From: Margaret Davenport‚ Vice
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_____________________________________________ Course and Section:______________________ Schedule: _____________________________ Date: ______________ Score: ___ I. Underline the independent clause and double underline the dependent clause in each given sentence. (20 pts.) I finished reading the book that you loaned me. Our trip to Holland ended with a visit to the town where my parents were born. Before the day was over‚ I made plans to see Ed. Because it was
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Matteo Pradella (DEI‚ PoliMi) Principles of Programming Languages‚ 3 May 2012 2 / 54 Introduction to Prolog Created around 1972 by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel‚ based on Robert Kowalski’s procedural interpretation of Horn clauses. decidable subset: Datalog‚ a query and rule language for deductive databases its failure as a mainstream language traditionally due to the following: Prolog usage in Fifth Generation Computer Systems project (FGCS) FCGS was an initiative by Japan’s
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Commerce and the Court: How and Why to Define the Commerce Issue Commerce has been part of our nation since we founded it. To every farmer‚ commerce was important so that the food they grew would not spoil on waiting for transport. However‚ as the nation grew‚ our definition of commerce has changed many times. Debates over whether Congress had powers to control commerce sparked further debate on if the Courts had the right to define commerce. Every debated‚ including this one‚ has two sides
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Contract Performance Joseph Dorow Strayer University BUS 501 Government Acquisition Instructor: Dr. Vic Villarreal December 2012 Contract Performance Summarize the report‚ with particular attention to the issue of contract performance. I chose the report with a Lancer Clothing Corporation protest alleging “Workroom for designers does not have a commitment for the lining material supplier who is reputable‚ and that it lacks sufficient production capacity. Lancer also alleges that the principal
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COMM401 Tensions in defining rhetoric * Substance versus surface * Literal versus figurative * Stable situations versus unstable situations * Normal versus poetic * Argument versus style * Everyday versus rare * Reflective versus constructive Rhetoric * “…that power which‚ of all the faculties which belong to the nature of man‚ is the source of most of our blessings.” Isocrates * Plato: “rhetoric is the knack of producing pleasure in the audience” * Aristotle:
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HOW TO WRITE: AP Rhetorical Analysis Paragraphs and Essays Things you must know in order to accurately analyze a text: 1. SOAPS 2. Rhetorical Strategies a. Appeals (ethos‚ logos‚ pathos) b. Style (diction‚ syntax‚ details‚ imagery‚ tone‚ etc.) 3. Why did the author choose these strategies for the particular audience‚ occasion‚ and/or purpose? a. This is the analysis part! Without this‚ you are merely summarizing the text. b. Think about these questions: i. HOW do the rhetorical strategies
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The rule of law entrenches the basis of the Australian Constitution. Clause 5 of the Australian Constitution states that all laws made by Parliament are binding on the courts‚ judges and people . It means that every person regardless of their identity is bound to the same law and same legal processes . The rule of law protects the citizens by securing limited powers of the government. The government must decide lawfully otherwise the court may declare it as void. It grants a moderate degree of protection
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voters in the South faced obstacles such as poll taxes and literacy tests‚ from which white voters were exempted by grandfather clauses. A system of whites-only primaries and violent reprisals by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan alsosuppressed black participation.In the twentieth century‚ the Court interpreted the amendment more broadly‚ striking down grandfather clauses in Guinn v. United States (1915) and dismantling the white primary system in the "Texas primary cases" (1927–1953). Along with later
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